Oct 04, 2006 03:57
A true diva will not stand being a version of an original.
Kuh Ledesma on the other hand, basked in her own P.R. efforts, heralding her as the Diana Ross of the Philippines, at the time when the Motown queen was gasping her last breath of pop supremacy during the early 80’s with a huge flop of an album aptly entitled ‘Eaten Alive.’ When that didn’t work, Kuh then worked to be known as the Barbra Streisand of the Philippines. She never got it, did she? See, Barang has a vocal range that matched her wit, while Kuh, is tone deaf. After the last failed attempt at being repackaged, this time as the Anggun of the Philippines, she decided to make a career on watching her business establishments burn down.
In the same banca is another pretender (legal wife yes, legit diva, no), Zsa Zsa Padilla. She has no distinct style. The timbre of her voice is just a notch better than Kuh’s, her range one fourth a scale higher but that’s it. Her marriage to Dolphy made her slightly more interesting despite that eternal half-sneeze look on her face that is so distracting.
Lastly, true divas don’t host lunchtime shows. It's unimaginable that they leave their bedrooms early in the day to earn a living.